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NOTES AND COMMENTS
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The controverey between vegetarians
and flesh, eaters in an old one. Flesh
his on its side custom and antiquity,
although we road in the Bible that
Daniel and hde eoraradee in the Palace
of Nebucliadnezzar throve as Well op
pule and avater as did the youths who
ate the King's raeat, in both Great
Britain and this country, down to a
recent. period, flesh conatituted the
chief article :of the food of all classes
Of people. Pepys, in his fernous diary,
records the dishes he gave his guests
on various occasions and scarcely men-
tions at all vegetables as forming part
of the bill of 'fare, Potatoes were not
then in common use, and were not cul-
tivated largely until about the begin-
ning of this century. Fruit was a
luxuly and eaten, only at dessert.' The
multiplication of railroads and the in-
vention of canning both fruits and
vegetables, as well as that of preserving
„thernaby artificial cold hast withina
few years, hannee.italyeenaomoted their
consuiamtion, and baking powderts have
rendered preparations of flour and ln-
dian meal easy and palatable. While,
too, the use of vegetable food, has thus
been facilitated and encouraged, that
of flesh has been checked by its in-
creasing cosst. Butchers meat has
more ilaan dou.bled in price within the
last forty years, but fruit and vege-
tables have become little, if any, dear-
er, and the variety and the supply of
them, both fresh and canned, has
been vastly larger. Apart from the-
ory, facts have. combined to promote
vegetarianism and to disc:cm/eta. etaet,
eating.
How small is the consumption of
testi on the continent of .Europe and
in tropical countries has long been the
subject of conament by visitors froiaa
England and from America. Even in
Ireland the predonainance of the pota-
to and the smafl consumption ofi but-
chers' meat are national characteris-
tics, In France, Germany, Italy, and
Spain, the peasants and working peo-
ple live principally upon bread in its
various forms, supplemented by veeta-
OBJEUTIONS ANSWERED.
REV. DR, TALMAGE STILL PREACHES
Oil FREE CHURCHES
The Regulation of church rioinices a
Positive Failure -what a Free Church
alumni niiive-atiditce the liass to At.
tend aome objections to or ie
thuren,
A despatcle! front Washington, says: -
Dr. Talmage, preaoleed from the follow-
ing text. "The riots and poem meet to-
gether: the Lord is the Maker of them
ell." -Proverbs xxii. 2.
Last Sabbath I discoursed to you
Lora these words, arguing in behalf of
a free Christian church. showed you,
as well as I could, that, it was a Scrip-.
tural idea; that it was the only prac-
ticable mode of city evangelization;
that it appealed to a class of persons
who would not otherwise be met; that,
so far as we ourselves were concerned,
all the Providential indications were
in that direction; and then, lastly,
that such an organization would en-
list the sympathies of men, of the
world, as no other organiztition could.
I resume the subjeot where I then
left it. "
What do you suppose Christ thinks
of the present suede of conducting
church finances?. If Jesus were now to
alight, upon earth and build a church
and assuine its pastoiate, would it be
necessaay for men to pay money in
order to have seats in that churcli?
From what you know of Christ's treat-
ment of the widow with two mites,
and of Mary 'Magdalen, and of the poor
man by tbe wayside, do you think that
a -eon's eosition in that particular
church of; Christ would be regulated
according to the n.umber of dollars
that he could pay?.No, says every man,
that idea would be abhorent to Christ.
Well, then, I say it ought to be ab-
horrent to us. Do you wonder that
there have been so many troubles in
the churches -that many of them have
fought like beasts at Ephesus, fought
about the site upon which to build,
fought about the architecture, fought
about the choir, fought about the
minister, fought before church, Lought
after church, fought all the week?
test nresene-oesteationhennatnentantaassateat_ tan& ed dollars a year, or a thousand
dollar seettiffsen hundred, will afatiteee
s es were all regulated btr the principlea they conzaect themselves with your
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bet Friday night after Briday night:
beard him Kay that the pastor
might, be blessed in hie basket
Q13.1 Store, while all the time 1. was
thinkiag, if I were dependent upon you
r would have a small baelset and a very
poor snore! The man is goae to a
better country, and where, X bet*, he
can live more ecanouncalia. Hat While
time are mean men as the Cbuieb,
them are mean men in the Church,
want you to understand thita the
naajority ef people who come to the
houee of God. are not of that °lass -
My observation is, that if you take
a common-sense principle and lay it "Why," :;aYS somebody, "/ am efraid
before common-sense men, aud say thet to go to such a church as you are de -
this is for the hnprovement of eociety scribing, becanse there may be eome
and. the bettering of the, condition of that costae • to Haat elrarcia wheal I
the world, men will generously support would not like to iissociate with; and
it ; end as nine tenth, of the people in IIQW W0aid I feel if some of my family
communityacan understand the free should marry a scavenger?" Ala, my
church priiaciple erhen it is plainly set friend, we might have, the Board of
before them, I believe that plan may Trustees resolve that no one need
anYwhere and everywhere be develop- marry a scavenger unless ehe wanted
ed. 1 have as much doubt of the exist- to I In every free church., just as in
enee of God and of a future World, and every pew -rental caurch, you will
of the blessedness of the Gospel, as I pie& yoga. own society. WItile your
have of the willingnees of the people Christian heart; will dictate kindnese
to support a free church in tma town and courtesy to all whom you meet on
words, I have no doubt at all. Says Sabbath, you will not be obliged to run
some one, Is it right to put ministeze to those who sit in the same church and
of the Gospel in way where they shall tell them all your family affairs, or
hive an uncertainty of livelihood?' invite them to your house. That is
reply by slaying that if a man have a not required. If there be in a pew
million of dollars, and he gives you a rental church fifty social circles, then
check for twenty-five dollars, and in every free church there will be fifty
when you go to the bank and present social. circles. T ca.n think of only one
that cback you know there is such a class of persons that will be very much
large margio betsveen the man's cepa- offended with that style of church. 1
city and that small check, that you admire a man who has raa.de a large
have no doubt that it will be prompt- fortune honestly, and who holds it
ly cashed. Now Christ says to his min- usefully. I admire the. perseverance,
isters, "Go and preach. my Gospel; I and the pluck, and the ingenuity, and
am ample to Lake care of you. I will the tact. I rejoice in his success, tired
take care of you. Lo, I am with you I pray to God that the hand of cone-
alway-even unto the end of the world. merciat disaster may never dethrone
The cattle on a thousand hills are him. But men who, by some freak of
mite, all the treasures of the universe good fortune, are thrown to the top,
are at my feet. Go, work in ray vine- and Who use their means for the pure
yard, and you shall ' want no good pose of fattening their own vanity, and
thing." Alas, then, if we who are in of wounding the feelings of those who
thing." Alas, then, if we who are in are not as fortu.nate as themselves, ex -
the ministry fold our hinds and begin cite in me such unbounded 'loathing
to trem.ble and say, "Dear Lord, that and contempt that I dare not trust
is a beautiful principle, but where is myself to speak of them. They are
my salary to come from?" Besides in my nostrils like the stench of sum -
that, I want you to reraember that neer carrion, ancl if the hand of cam -
the young men who will be willing to menial disaster ehould tear off from
connect themselves with the ' free, them their 'gala and their diamonds
churches of this country -though they and their trinkets', it will take one of
may not have large means now with M'Allister's best and most powerful
which to help you -still they are, after niterosoopic apparatus to make visible
a while, to shoulder the great church to the naked eye the noxious insects.
enterprises. Who are your poor men Their wealth equalled by their stupi-
to-day ? Largely, they who twenty dity and tbeir ignorance -teach men
years ago were in affauencie. Who are will abhor the idea of a free Christian
your rich men to -day? Those who church, ; but rioh men and poor men,
twenty years ago were in poverty, high and low men, educated and ig-
Struggling up from the very foot of norant men, who believe in the bro-
the ladder. I say these young men therhood of man and fatherhood of
evho are clerks in our stores on five God, will accept the principle laid
down in the text, and. rejoice when in
airy chuien'ia tatinstatatenneaThe rich
an the poor meet together; the 'Lei
is the Maker of them all "
EXTER
thildren mean, and their grandchildren
Moen, and the rule going on to the
tenth teenertition---peraape for all
e ran t y.
Ii another f Mily, X
have Sear; father tied mother good, and
their children. good, and their grand-
clitldren good -the tide of virtue and
generosity going on tbrough all g0n-
erations. Therefore, I believe la fam-
ily 'Wood. I believe that God never
cane a man, if he is intelligent, to ase
eoeiate with ignornace, or if he be
gent, to associate with boorishness, Or
it he virtuous, to associate with
vice. , ,
of
millions are fed exclusively wit
rite and other grains, the Hindoos r
jecting beef, and the Mohammedan
pork from religious scruples as well a
from economy. The free use of an
mal food, therefore, appears to be de -1
pendent upon a country's condition I
in wealth, and a prevalence of veget.a.-;
-•rianism to be the result of compara-
tive poverty. If this assumption is
coreect, we may look hereafter for the
pread of vegetarianism in what are ;
now flesh -eating countries, and a )
corresponaing increase of flesh eating '
in what are now vegetarian eountries.
The tendency of the modern improve-
ments in locomotion is to equalize the
conditions of life in all parts of the
globe and to obliterate marked differ-
ences in the habits of its population. I
Experience., shows that in their food
andtdrink peeple follow their appetites !l
and not the teachings of theory, and
those who can afford it will no more
abandon the ^ use of antmal food com-
pletely than they will that of wine,
beer, spirits, opium and other stirau-
tants.
h conflicts of the last, fifty years have
e- been church troubles. If our church- a under' God, be the mighty men
on 'Clringe; and though now, aahen
s of Christ's religion, do you not, believe church, they may be of little or no fin -
tlin; there would be a cessation to such
combat? "But,'.' says some one, "we
must stick to the old plan, lest we
shall not get on successfully in our
Lin .nces," as though the present mode
in the churches of conducting finances
were a success. Far from it. Three-
fourths of the churches of Christ in
this land are, in debt, and in three-
fourths of them 'the income does not
equal the outgo, and, at the end of the
year, a few generous men have to come
together andmake up the deficit, or
some general effort is made on the
pare .of the congregation to regulate
the indebtedness. Ay, the regulation
of church fineness by the past /node
s ' positive failure, Every potty
knows that churches are the poorest
"ay, and tat i a bank or an insur-
CHRISTMAS AT SEA.
Uow the Day is spent on Board a litg
Ocelot liner.
Those who ania,gine that Christmas
--
spent pa Attie: wide, wide sea is a, failure
e apt ,to be mistaken. It is quite
111 pos •liale that December 25 in the re-
giostof which IsTanse.n treated might
be tcis a, certain extent uncomfortable,
while cosiness and the regolation San;
Is Claus thrill may well be, hard een-
aations to inspir if crossing the equa-
tor. But the a,verage liner plying the
temperate zones enjoys as good - a
Christmas as anyone.
In the first plaee, the fact that you
are going away endears you to mote
people, than you oculd ordinarily en-
chant. Those who really care for you
will as much its possible increase their
Int, in order that you may in ,some gi
way forget the absent home ; while
meny o may not be very near to
you. are in a greater or less degree in-
spired by the same feeling. The 'big
liner,s leaving America the Week be -
tore Christmas cereyt innumerable lit-.
(lo bundle.s,teach of which is not to
be opened until X131a8, on pain of
and each of which contains smile
le gift that 'must bring the receiv-
er nearer to his home. The snow and
the fires and ths loved, familiar faces
°.awa, coureca` be absent, but the
Chili tines tree is there, and
by that peculiar affinity which peo-
ple an thrown together invariably evince
you quickly become at ease with all.
Chrietmas evening in the Medi-
terranean is particularly chain:deg.
The calm, smooth sea, and the acft, re-
dolent air, tbe dreamy play of the band
inside, where the passengers are danc-
ing in the cabin, even the rude songs
of the eailors, around their little tree
in the forecastle, are moat ronaantic.
The spirit Qr the eeaeoll seizes on yeti.
If atm are oat, you long to be young
again that you too !night tip the light
fantaetic toe on such a heaesenly even-.
ittg ; and ia you ate young, you 'give
youraelf up unreservedly to dreame of
knights, fair ladies, gottictiers and
parts or th ts Orient.
same company were conducted in the
same slipelioa manner, SO thOrOtignl
ineffiCient ---' that it svould be diecre
ited and wiped out 01 existence. 1
the old mode of conducting churchfin
anaes in the religious organizations
had been thoroughly successful, then
we mightabe on our guard; but as the
fact is, in nine cases out of Len, it has
been a failure; I say there is no dan-
ger ih floating off from it.
But this brings me to answer the
first objection which can be 'd t
o a
free church, and that' is, that it can no
be financially supported. You ea.
that there is a great deal of expensia
niachiaery in the church; there is th
coal bill, and the gas, bill, and an in
suranc,e hill, and the expenses of- sex
ton, and must, and minister, and, as
fre,e churches et ent to be conducted on
a large and gteerous scale, thero will
be extraordinary. expenses. Ay, we
adra:t a1i this. In a free church the
music should be of the very best pos-
sible character, every hymn storming
the very gates of heaven, The church
arehitecture ought. to be plain bue inn
posing, tebe people .seated face lo face
in the gi congr. gin ion. a he preach-
ing ought to be earnest. Indeed it is
ea deal easier to preach •n/
anoint help, after they have made their
fortunes, as they will, every dollar of
those fortunes will be consecrated to
Christ. So that we may look in that
direction end feel that there will be
help.
My frie,n.ds, unless the great masses
of the people can be brought into our
churches, what is to become of our
cities? Do you know the fact that
crime, and debauchery, and every sort
of abomination are triunaphing in our
great towns? Just then take out
your pencils ancl make a calculat
it is only a question in common ar
metic--How long, if evil influences
tante to increase at tlae same r
how long. before the religion of Ch
in our cities will be discomfited '
our churches 'destroyed? In less t
a century, as certain as two and
make four, unless some other pia
tried. Yet' we know that religion 1
triumph, and that ein is to go do
and that Christ is 'to reign in 'n11
. .
cities, but it will be by some ot
plan ; it will be when the churches
1, gard to their financial qualificatio
I
y Christ are thrown wide open, and
d- people told to Tome in, without any
-1 and hear the Gospel and 'get prepa.
for heaven. The possibility of est
lishing and sustaining such a chu
is strengthened by the idea that in
-will support "Nome institutions rat
than foreign. How many of y,ou w
ever kept awake at night- because
'Gospel does not prosper in Greerilan
t IHow many ever refused food beca.
there is heathenism in Guatema
y , None! Then it is. a question that
e peals to every man's heart -it is
e home question -he cen understand
- and will be willing to support it.
- , Again some have objected to a ft
church because it destroys the ho
feeling, and it is a forcible objectio
it is :so mighty an objection, that if
can not meet it, I will surr,end.er t
principle advocated. Destroy the her
feeling I Father, eitting here in t
church- Mother sitting there, childr
somewhere else; or if the church
crowded some Sabbath, you can not g
in it at all. " We want our famili
beside us in the house of God. Seat
with them here, we hope to woreb
with ahem in heaven." To this obje
tion my answer is, In every free chute
let the pew e be forrualty aseigned wit
out reference to the dollar questa)
priority of applicatiott giving priori
of choice, pew not to be forfeited excep
in the, event of bad behavior or non
atieridence. Then a teen seated in i
with his family has a home feeling
marc So atnhda nheinivtolietoothrienrg style o
ne his chil
dren home from the sobooli, and mov
from a fine house into a smaller one
and put an plainer iipperel, he sits dow
in the house of ,God and says, "Her
is a house finial which Tam eerlainsno
to be turned out t here we will be pre
pared for heaven." Tf, in the one case
there is a home feeling when the pew
systena is in force, and men may h
driven out because they lose their for
tune and can not pay their pew -rent
I oak you if there is not a better home
feeling be that, church where a man
feels that no earthly disaster ahall af-
fect his occupancy ? IX home feeling'
is found in any church on eerth, it
will be found in a free church -the
seats formally assigned and occupied.
But there aro others who may oppose
the free church principle on the ground
that obliterates social distinetion, It ia
an objection oftener thought than spole-
en, bat it is a eeally solid objection,
t is an impottaiiiii, question, " What
hall be the social italuenees amidst
vaich my foiling will be placed tr we go
0 that charela ?" I believe in good
nood, and that there is 81101A a thiag
e bad blottd. I believe in Toted blood.
n some tamilies the tide. seems all the
vrong wet? ; in other families the title
tone all the right way, X have lenown
father and mother mean, and their
ion;
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VAGARIES OP ENGLISH.
That's quite a draft front the weet,
I hie inorriing, remarked the banker to
tlo enehter as they gist:wed over the
ii ail
new office boy promptly tilesed
the tronsoM end agairi stood at atten-
tion.
Jet the pews be formallY assigned with -
church. It disastea come to him, and
his fortunie is gone, and he can pay
(hutch than in any other. If a man
has been for a long time at a bta.n-'
quet, and five or six courses of food
hive passed before him, then when
plain bread is prese.nted he rejects it;
but if you take that plain bread to
men who for forta-eight heart have
hed nothing to cat, how they will
clutch for it! Now, simpty say that
a vast' majority of the people ' who
have been attending our Christian
churchee' heve been stuffed for these
twenty years withtbe confections of
religton, and when we present them
wi I he plain bread of the Gospel,
they do not vaant it;' but if we should
gtitly...r into • mar churcbes tbe cattside
inaeses 'evil° ate starviag for this bread
oa life, with what earnestnees and
with, whet i di t y vvould they seize'
Unon it, "But," you say, -"the sup-
port of a Charch whieh such music, and
with sash b r6hi Lecture, and earnest
preaehing, would be very 'expensive,
end how vveuld you meet the indebted -
flees?" I answer: by ustial eubscriptien
end by ,Sabbitth collections.
yon• say, ''[herr will be meant men who
will come and Occupy the P6W8 and
pay rioihng, and 80 tin financial inter -
es) s of the, elmrch will go, 6verboard."
C or:It nowtetige that ,„ t here are mean
men in ohurehes. 1.1ere are men with
PMI'S small that fifty of theta might
dance. on the pOillt, of a needle, and
f1,11r6 room to turn around 'without
I eachi rig their elbowel had in my
church at Syractise, NeVc York, a man
of comfortable ttlatinS who gave no-
thing for tile support of the Gospel;
a
now, "There are yet. two on three or
for sheave§ for yeti to reap for the
Lord'a garner. Oh, give us your prey.
ere, aged mon. (nye as wlaat etrenglib
there may be still rep -seining in yoar
arm; and then, when you are gone, we
will tell mar ohildren how wall youServ'
ed in the to/apt°, and, like Elisha, we will
ory as when Elijah went un, "My
father, my nither, the chariots of
Israel, and the horsemen thereof!"
What I say to oue I say to all--
froni those wlao. sit beneath, to those
wlio Ilse above me in the galleriesae
what you do for Christ, do quickly.
The field is white, the siokle is sharp,
the zeward is grand, Om time is short,
the judgment is near? What thy
band findeth to do, do it now,
Are your sins pardoned ? Are you
ready tor Christian work? Will heav-
en be your home! As I was entering
the gates of this building to -night, a
man stopped me and said, " That man
you saw last ,night at eight or nine
o'clock is dead." I said, "It caa not
be possible'. I was there at nine
o'clock, and said, I will soon see you
again "-for be was here laet Sabbath.
Now they tell me he is gone Are
we all re,ady ? We cannet always be
1 ere. 1,1 can not be that all these peo-
ple will meet each other agein in this
building.
ADVENTURE WITH A TIER
Experience 01 an English 011icer Stationed
tu.
The ardent seeker after big game is
often in peril of life and limb, but
the rarely counts the clanger, or if he
7
does, the excitement and glory strike
the balance in favor of the risk. Cat- v
onel R., an English officer stationed a
in India, met with a singular adven-
ture while tiger-hunLing, in which he
lost an arm. •
The colonel had wounded a tiger from Pk
an elephant's back. The tiger charged, w
and the eleplaaat, taking fright, bolt- b
ed through the jungle. To save himself
fliE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JAN, 0.2
Chi -15t and NicOdensIt4." John 3 HS
Golden Text. John a. 16.
PHACTICAL NOTES.
Vere I- There wee a men. Godeti
and following him Dr, M. R. Vincent,
observe the close connection between
this Ver$0 and the last word of tha
previous chapter; " Many believed ia
Jeses, but Jeans did not commit
him-
seJt unto theta, becanse he knew ell
men, and needed not that any should
testify of roan ; for he kneW Wha.t. was
in Man,' Nicoderaus is a eonVentent
specimen of the race of mankind whittle
Jtesus knew so well. Of the Pharisees.
party which undertook to fulfill the
law of Moises to tithe letter, and too
often neglected its spirit. Nicoclemus.
There are slight descriptive touches of
this man in the Talmud watch mention
his enormous wealth when Titus be-
gan the siege of Jerusalem, and the
abject poverty to whicla his family was
afterevard redhead. His later
career shows a firmness which
Is not at all inconsistent 'with
the inquiring spirit to,anifested in
this lesson. A ruler of the Jaws. He
appears to have been a member of the
great council, or Sanhedrin. See John
. 50, As shah lee was an authorized
eamher of the law, a master in Israel,
arse 10, and possessed of certain judi-
ial power.
2. Came to Jesus by night. Fearing
o cornmemise his own dignity and
ossibly safety. Je.wish superstition
ept the men home at night. A guest,
hich Jesus was in Jerusalem, would
ftom being brained and swept off by
overhanging branches, Colonel R. seiz-
ed a stout limb, and raising himeelf, P
left the elephant to go on alone tbrougla t
the forest. To his dismay, he found he t
had not strength and agility sufficient st
to swing himself up to sit on ts the
branch. In vain he strove to throw' a
auleg over and so raise hinaself. o
e given the "upper room," which was
early alwaya approached by an out-
ide staircase, so that a visit could be
aid to him in secrecy. It is pleasant
o note that Nicociemus was one of
hose who out of weakness was made
rong. We find him afterward pleading
little more boldly in the council in
ur Lord's behalf, john 7. 51, • and
en, like a confirmed disciple, aasist-
g, with joseph of Arimathea, to give
O body of Jesus an honorable and
stly burial, John 19. 39. Rabbi.
alaster." It would, be of great inter -
t if we could ascertain by what
It
s -
re
tt.
. 7., of which-Jesusaut not approve.
We know. Nicodemus seem-stab-Wm:a,
at that other members of the council
shared. his conviction, which was based
on. our Lord's miracles. Thou. arta
teacher corae from God. "Thou art
come, from. God as teacher." It is from
God tlaat thou hest come. .
3. Ansvvered end said. This phrase
is often used in reply. te an objection
or criticism, or, to something present
in another's mind, and not simply in
direct reply to another's address. Ver-
ily, verily. Amen; amen. An Hebraic
phrase of emphasis. Except a man be
born again. In the margin it is "born
from above." Compare John 1. 13. Our
Looking 'down, the sportsman discov- th
ered that the tiger had spotted him and in
wae waiting below. The horror of the th
situation can be imagined -the enrage co
ed tiger, andthe helpless, dangling man e
knowing he must fall into those cruel es
Jaws. ,
na
xdaweleng, he lauog there he never w
knew He Sarins sh • k d
eans Jesus came by this title,
as, fIS we have seen in a recent le
n, a very new title, unknown bolo
asse deaa of our Lord, and one, Ma
rie e an so
Now, my frie, cis d agony ad leer. He atasaanantaatteareette
, ve a sweie .
these objecttons to a free church, not
because my own congregation make
them -.they do not make objections -
but thinking that there might: be some
who are about In connect themselves
with us who thi net know the prin-
ciples upon which our church is to be
founded. I will say that nay soul is
absorbed in this idea. It has been a
matter of personal sacrifice to me that
I have pleaded for it, and I say to all
ministers of the Gospel who ,may be
in the houtee to -night, if their 'idea is
a large salary and magnificent income,
they had. better never "apleadtfor a free
church; but if, on the other hand;
their idea is to bring the Gospel of
Christ to the masses of the people who
are without Christ and without God in
the world, then it is a very satisfac-
tory idea, and will give them a reward
now in their own c-onscience and in the
joys of heaven. I commit thentrinciple
first to God, andthen I commit it to
the masses of the people. I came out
from among' them. I know them alto-
gether. I am, in sympathy with them.
My father and mother toiled with their
hands until old age stooped their
shoulders and made their eye -sight
very dim, and then they died, leaving
us a glorious legacy, not in dollars and
cents, hut in prayers and Christian ex-
ample that this world will never fob
its of:- In the hand of the God that
loved them, and that I love, I trust
this principle. I tell you plainly to-
night that I would rather ,fail in this
attempt to give the Gospel to the
masses than to succeed in any thing
else. Living or dying, in prosperity
or in eorrow in good report or in evil.
report, in the, name of my Lord Jesus
Christ, my hope in life my peace in
death, my triumph in life,
I con-
secrate to -night, body, mind, and soul,
to this one enterprise. Considering
what God has done for us, we would
be cowards now to distrust him. Oh,
young men of my church, buokle on
the whole armour of God. Do you know
that if you start life in the service of
Jesus Christ, you start well ? I point
you to -night to a field 01 usefulness
than which God never opened a grand-
er. Do you know that into your hande
ittle, then the other; then hung de-
spairingly by both -till at last tired
nature gave way and he dropped!
He remembered thrusting one arm
into the tiger's jaws, and then con-
sciousness left him. His life was saved
by the arrival of a friendly rifle -barrel
held close to the tiger's head, and
through the subsequent amputation of
the mangled arm by a skilful surgeon.
QUEEN, COUNTESS AND CAT.
The death of the Empress of Austria
has served to revive many old stories
of her eversion to conventionality, but
in this she was far excelled, by her sis- in
ter, the former Queen' of Naples, who, au
1
after her husband had lost his throne, e
took up her re,sidence at Rome with 1 al
the King and her child. She occu-1 A
pied a palace adjacent to that inhabited
by the mother of Cardinal Antonelli,
the Papal Secretary of State. That
aged lady w -as passionately devoted to
cats, and these animals, in accordance
with their invariable custom were
arcl eegias his discourse by name
g to this inquirer this first a
ndaneental truth, that if we wou
nter into the kingdom of God,
ust be horn, again. For to be bo
gatn is to be quickened by God's Ho
pirit . .
o new hopes,, new desires, new
affections, and "to know the love of
Chit, which passeth knowiedg.e." He
cannot see. Until the nature ciranan
correspondent with the divine order
iritual things cannot be apprehend-
. Nicodemas had supposed that the
ngdona of God was a new imperial
nee; Christ would have him under -
and that it was a spiritual empire,
herein citizenship was to come
rou,gh renewed human nature,
4. How can a man be born when he
old? Or, "an aged man," far ad -
need in years, as probably Nicodemus
aS•sicie.S:cortd time.. As Godet re -
ginning and a different beginnin,g.
nd the difference between a second
rks, "Nicodeneus does not under-
. 0E0 kx se e pa tt tah ems:: bjb t bf ronm ot fhewsrietceure.
d of the Spirit. Of the water in holy '
tisra, as the outward sign.; of the
ly Spirit as the effectual cause,
rk 16. 16; Acts 2, 38; Tit. 3, 5, En.
tato. Become partaker of.
The flesh. Used in something like
sense in which we use human na-
e -that whieh is born under the
ditions of this life. Kind begets
d. That which is boen of the
at. Tbe Holy Spirit of God. The
inning of life in the earthly econ-
is ot an earthly sora bat the life
begins amid, heavenly cnnditions
rt-
nd
lti
we
rn
ly
is
SI)
, ed
wont to make the otherwise exquisite ' ki
Roman nights hideous with their con- sIi
carts. The Queen repeatedly sent to si
the old Countess A.ntonelli, entreating w
her to 'keep her eats muter proper re- th
.streint, at any rate at night. This
the Countess refused tO do. ' is
At length the queen became. desper- eva,
uta, put -chased several saloon rifles and st-
air guns, and 'proceeded to shoot the„ mz
disturbera of her rest, The old Count- sta
ess, frantic with rage, appealed first be
of all to her son, the Secretary of State. He
and then to the tate Pope himself, in- tar
eisting that some check should be put 5
u.pon the sporting proclivities of the an
royal Diana, and that she should be bap
debarred from potting cats under the Ho
very shadow of the' walls of St. Peter's Ma
and the 'Vatican. But the good Pope ter
declined to interfere, intimating that 6,
the cats should nbt have made such the
horrible noises,. and that they practi- tut
°any deserved their fate. con
For a long time Rome laughed about kin
is oat episode, popular sympathy be- Spia
are to come the mighty destinies of ;ng with the former Queen, though it be.g
Christ's kingdom very soon; and leo't , doubttul whether Cardinal Antonelli may
you in the eye and ask you if, wh al ever forget or forgave the injury dotie 1 that
in this battle these older men sh 11. to his mothers pets. Pet any rate th '
fall, yJn sh catch up the standard?
Quit you like men! Be strong!
Then X .eee. ari this audience men in
middte Ufa from thirty to fifty years of
age. What think you of giving a free
Gospel to the ma.sses? If yea want to
niake up for lost time, here is tbe
chence to do it. You have been down
in the world. You know what it '14
made of. Yon have cteliberatety con -
°Jaded that it is ;t most unsatisfacto; y
pardon, Pall into line, oh yeemen in
mid -life -men between tbirty and fifty
years of age. • The battle may be hot,
Mite' ant not afraid to lead you, and I
wave the sword in front of the hoot,
e.rYing, Fortvardl Let cowards fly!
Act ye like sons of God!
But there are others here litho linger
by'the banks of the river. They know
that because of old age they must soon
go over. You have had many 'a gond
time. Every wrinkle in yam , face
ought to be hallelugeh. By what
brood you. have been bought! By what
mercy you have been defended, Yea
can not sing Olean hymns with is firm
a, voiee as once you sang them; and
you. came to tide house to -night With
trembling step -not 18 once you. came
look around, and your tonitades are
gone, and your best frieatia are on tbe
other side of the tiver, and you fetcl
that soon ,yott must go and' join thent
You feel ,inst. like a farmer en a eura-
mer-day in the harveetafield, tato
"NOW, boys, it ie almost aight,
aid the wind la arena the eeet, end it
'111storta befoao inoraingt let us gel
in a few More aheavea." .Fot nett the
hour is coming in whieh Men ear)
work, end whit 3,00 do you must do
Queen and her husband found it 'pre-
,
ferable a year later to abandon their
reaidence in Borne, on the ground that
they were subjected to too ina,ny an-
noya.nces by the Papal authorities on,
the plea of avoiding conflict with the
Neapolitan government.
AN OLD „OIL CLOCK.
An interesting specimen of the old
oil clock ,used insthe seventeenth cen-
tury was shown at the recent clock ex-
hibition in Berlin. Ihis partaculer check
consists of a tube 01 glass in Itou -
ea: receiving frame, on which the hears
from eight in the morning until Stx
in the evening are indicated, The glass
tube is filled with oil and the ss ick
in the receptacle consumes each hour
itist a certain portion of it, which can
be seen by the number e on the outer
frame, and the time of day according-
ly. Of course, this oil clock never had
a reputation for aceuracy, bet inathoas
clap; there were no trains or steam-
ships, and the doctrine that time is
motley bad not leen Propounded;
PAPER, WATER BAGS.
The japarieee Make Water begs or
rice paper, ndiich, are said to be more
durable, as Well a8 less' eXpensive, than
similar.' article's. Made'. Of rubber. Hee
'..creen the layerS of paper, us hieh is soft
.nd flexible, resin is used, and the outs
:ditto is covered withhinge
is instinct with heaven. To enter the
eupretue kindgoin, one must become
partaker cif the supreme nature.
7. Ye must be borne again, Even
ye, Israelites, and Pharisees, and naern-
bers of the Sanhedrin.
8. The wind bloweth. (Compare Ec-
cles: 11. 5.) "As in the, natural world
everyone is sensible of ahe power of
the wind, its unchecked freedom, its
diffusion everywhere, hearing the
sound, and seeing the effect of its
gentler or stronger fore, $.0 in the
epiritaal world, we may well believe
thatthe grace of the Holy Spirit works
unseen, breathing often inmereeptibly
upon the,eoul, and in svays whiohl we
eannot sensibly feel or -distinguish (1
Cot. 2.110 but it is ai$T.erited by its ef-
feets."---Churton. Thou hearest the
souna thereof, but canst not tell
whence it cometh, and avhielier it goeth.
'The posaibility that this illustration
would not ,be applicable to a modern
seientist (1oos not 'lessen its force' and
beauty."-Gobin. So is ()Very one that
is born of the Spirit. As you seo the
wind, 80 you, have visible evidentio of
the power, of the Spirit's invisible in-
fluence.
10. Asa thou a master of Tertiel. The
evorde in the original mey imam Ar
thou the famous mastet?" Knoweet
not. Better, ae the Revised Varelon,
"utalersttaadeat not." ,
11. 1 sty unto thee. "t" to "thee'"
loviOg, earnest, intease. We 110 .11
that we do knovve " Nina we heve
5".' 11 and lien id with eonlidertee
tell." Ye receive not our saline:at Tile
Jewish elders as e bads, ha ci rejere d
Chilst bat bur I ora the/ t be
new bittlt ittiPartit newvteion.
that
is bora of tae water arid Of h
SPitit sees the aiegdore of. God,
12. Earthily thiags. . neeteala
things 't lay earthly tillage, or "04440
that ale done on earth,' we roust nue
dertitand the grime of Inc new birth,
af ste, Jews, believe not theeat thing
when they are declared to no% hOW
wilt ae believe thee() higbor mystealea,
concernitig heavenly uature ?
13. ,And no maa bath ascended. " NI-
codeinua heti begun (his conference by
saaring, ' lanclir taat thou art a
teacher colne from God.' Our Lord bere
tells that he wets more titan this,
that he yrae come from God to dwell
with men as the Son of Man,' but was
still in the eo'wer of his Godhead united
with hi a Father, ' heaven.' As the
Son of God, he aicine had nerfeot knoWe
ledge of laeaveuly tlaings.n-Churicsat
14. As Moses lifted up tile serpent.
Num. 21‘ 9. The brazen serpent was
a type of Christ, in that thoee wise
looked upon it were delivered from
temporal death; so they who look
with faith upon Christ crueified are
saved from eternal death.
16, God so loved the world. (Com-
pare Rom, 3.29 and 8.02; 1 john 4, 9.)
Most of what our Lord had said wa.s
in harmony with the gerieral te,ach-
ings of the Plia,risees; but here was
an enlargement of view W-11/01. a strict
member el the sect would shrink from.
MYSTERIOUS LIGHT AT SEA.
rarce StelltD8r4 ISIder,datui it, But
titesrxIt.t.,: Monaco Knew.
The Inince of Monaco Ilea' been lantgasinehae
since 1885 as an enthusiastic student '
of the sea and its various forms of life.
He usually spends his summers in the
study of oceanographic problems, and
his craises have on some ocoasions been
extended alnaost to the coasts of Amer-
ica. A short time ago he delivered a
lecture before the Royal G-eographical
Society in London, in which he told this
incident:
One afternoon, wlaile in the Bay of
Biscay, he sank the trap in which he
collected specimens of sea life. It went
to the bottom in over 12,000 feet, of ,
water, and as night approached he fast-
ened to the wire atta,ched to it, an elec-
tric buoy and then stood off a mile or
so. It did. not happen to occur to ban
that he was right in the track of steam-
ers plying between northern Europe
and tbe Mediterranean, but he was re-
minded of the fact later.
As he and his fourteen sailors were
watching with a good deal of satisfac-
tion the swaying buoy with its bril-
liant illumination a steamer's lights
came into view. It was soon evident
hat the steamer was curious to know
Tana-m•aanage of the illumination, for
ishigehttesrhede hka-eia6.‘evatiatahea..adtafi„d„Inairizie2ifobrof,htse
came, out so far from land and
termined to solve the mystery. -Up
she came to within a quarter of a niile
of the buoy, slowed up a minute, ancl
then started ahead, perhaps 4 little
disgusted at the incident that had
lured her several miles out of her
course.
She had hardly got away when a sec-
ond steamer came into view, and she,
too, bore down on the lighted buoy. The
marines on the Prince's vessel under-
stood by this time that the illumina-
tion was probably believed to be evi-
dence of a disaster, Just as the
Prince's steamer was moving up to ex-
plain matters she was nearly ran
down by one of the large liners in
the Oriental trade, which had also left
her course to render what assistance
she could.
The swell was very heavy, and the
Prince feared. a collision as the three
vessels approached the light like =miles
around a candle. He therefore veered
off and the, other vessels, after stand-
ing by for a few minutes, went on their
way and probably never learned the
cause of' that night's illumination. at
sea.
But the incident gave the Prince a
pointer. He carefully refrained there-
after frcan exhibiting his electric buoy
on any of the much -travelled ocean
routes.
HIS OWN SEXTON.
-A. Inflow; olfvisioeirit:10,tettie ii.uvecttifonii.Novei Mode
At a town between Paris arid, Dijon,
France, a vestry clerk, employed in the
local church saw a strange scene the
other night. On leaving his office he
heard a noise in the cemetery, and
went into the place in order to ascer-
tain the cause of the same. He then
saw a man named Penisson, whom he
knew, rolling a wheelbarrow contatn-
ing a coffin tovvarcl an °red gra Vt3.
The clerk asked the man what he was
going to do, whereupon Perlisson
calmly replied that he was tired of .ex-
istence, and inteoded to bury himself
alivenear the side, of his father. Rear-
ing this, the clerk resolved to for
the local mayor, in, order to take corn -
billed action with him about the fun-
atie. In about half aa hour tbe two
men entered the cemetery and went
towards the place where they saw Pen-
issons wheelbarrotv. They found that
the coffin had been lewerea into the
grave. They deseended into the pit ilnd
tried to open the lid, which resisted
their efforts. It Was faateried1051(10,
and they next ueed a pick, arid with
it lifted tip the lid by their jcdat of -
forts. The lunatic wile lying clowa in
the coffin, but is soon as the cover was
taken off he ,iumped up, clambered out
pa the grave with the greetest celerity,
end rah away. Pernasoti has aot since
(leen seen.. The inside or the coffin
was comfortably lined with w 1 end
in it were a dietionery, a preyer book,
t'tfllSS'lfl '5 roord of military servicet
certificate of his good cona tan and
his 'Savings bank, accoent. The gene
tiarrhas ere now locatitig for the men
who wentea to bury tiobsett atim end
if ir poseible that he may very seen be
found and tteneferrea tin an a'aYluilt,
Billy -Does yet& mother
anything la yeti
without cryiag „„ aat•
&taw,' nee eared'
en,